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Lost Ark says it’s reversed false bans even as players report Steam accounts still flagged
Last week, Amazon took one hell of a banhammer to Lost Ark, smashing so many bots that players noticed the drop in concurrency and...
Mortal Online 2 bans hundreds of accounts for an exploit that avoided full loot on death
You can possibly understand why players of Mortal Online 2 would be attracted to an exploit that allowed you to play the game and...
Tower of Fantasy has expelled over 10,000 accounts worldwide for cheating so far
This past week was an extremely busy one for the Tower of Fantasy team, specifically the Hykros Central Control Room, which is a fancy...
Final Fantasy XIV makes plan for opening home world transfers while banning RMT accounts
If you want to transfer your home world in Final Fantasy XIV right now... well, you can't. This is not for no reason, either....
Albion Online bans more than 600 accounts for buying currency
You are probably aware that buying Silver in Albion Online from a third-party site is not allowed, not least because there's a legitimate first-party option...
J. Allen Brack says Blizzard will combat racism through donations, bans, and education
Nobody's ever going to hold Blizzard up as a paragon of virtue, but President J. Allen Brack said that the studio is trying to...
Last Oasis declares that cheaters will not be tolerated within the game
If you decide to cheat in Last Oasis, the developers do not like you. No, not if you're just testing it out. No, not...
Fortnite bans certain actions in competitive play to avoid cheating
Good news, Fortnite players, you can be issued a ban for jumping during competitive play! Sort of, anyhow. See, Fortnite really doesn't want players signaling to...
Final Fantasy XIV suspends a streamer for shaming another player live on his stream
One of the rules about playing Final Fantasy XIV is that players are to a limited extent liable for what they do and say outside...
Black Desert Online is blocking macro software in its Korean version, leading to player anxiety
All right. We can all agree that trying to cut down on hacking in Black Desert Online is a good thing, yes? So we...
World of Warcraft backpedals on recent banwave
Blizzard has announced that it's rolling back its recent wave of suspensions for World of Warcraft accounts found to be operating third-party software "that...
Fallout 76 asks banned players to submit a 500-word essay on why cheating is wrong
So we all know that Fallout 76 is a buggy mess by this point, which means that until it becomes not a buggy mess,...
PUBG has banned 13M cheaters since 2017, rolls out new anti-cheat systems
You know what I'm really, really tired of? Freakin' cheaters. They aren't just cheating at the game itself; they are robbing all of us...
Guild Wars 2: Belgian players report gem-buying block, plus more on the bubble tea bans
If you're a Belgian gamer, you should probably take a peek at your Guild Wars 2 account. Multiple Redditors and forumgoers from the country...
Destiny 2 once again denies misidentifying cheaters in latest ban wave
When Destiny 2 launched on PC just two weeks ago, the cheater ban waves began. Players revolted, arguing that they hadn't been cheating and...
Fortnite deals with cheat detection false positives, breaks half a million concurrent players
Cheating is bad in online games; we can all agree on that. Having anti-cheat software usually raises some questions back and forth, but the...
The Elder Scrolls Online recaps the big events of E3 while players get hit with surprise bans
If you're fond of The Elder Scrolls Online and have managed to tear yourself away from Morrowind for a few minutes, you probably already...
Legendary pokemon are teased for Pokemon Go as a new anti-cheat measure auto-bans bots
Remember how last summer was all about Pokémon Go? That's probably not going to happen again this year, but the team behind the game...
Black Desert GM punishes a player with a writing assignment
The hard part about being a GM has to be when you're dealing with a certain brand of player. You know the sort; they're...
Blizzard cracks down on Overwatch aimbot cheaters
OK, cheaters, listen up. You're jerks, you're ruining the game for everyone, you're wasting developer time, which means you're wasting everyone's money, you're not...
